Education
The Precourt Institute for Energy's educational mission is to help develop a generation of experts and energy-literate people for the energy transition.
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Resources for Stanford students
Explore Energy
Explore Energy is the Precourt Institute’s student engagement and education program across all Stanford’s schools. The program increases energy literacy, experiential learning, mentoring and networking at Stanford.
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Featured learning opportunities
Stanford Climate Ventures
Stanford Climate Ventures is a three-quarter project-based course sequence that practices the creation of transformational climate ventures and innovation models.
Hacking for Climate and Sustainability
Participants in this class will develop the skills required of a mission driven entrepreneur and apply lean startup principles by tackling a critical problem facing climate and sustainability as part of a team of engineers, scientists, social scientists, MBAs, and law and policy experts.
Hacking for Defense
Tackle complex problems critical to the government around national security, energy networks, cyber security, AI and invent new technologies with a team of engineers, scientists, MBAs, and policy experts
TomKat Innovation Transfer
The TomKat Center's Innovation Transfer program assists Stanford University faculty, staff, and students in commercializing breakthrough technologies and innovations in sustainability.
Seminar series
Take an energy related seminar.
California and Western Energy Lecture series
Explore California and Western energy, including the relevant agencies and organizations, what they do and how they operate.
Free energy learning for all
Understand Energy Learning Hub
Questions about EVs, hydrogen, gasoline prices or any energy topic? Our Understand Energy Learning Hub website has the answers. We share content from our Understand Energy course in an easy-to-navigate format that allows you to explore more than 30 energy topics. It’s a free resource open to everyone. Each issue of the Hub's monthly Energy Spotlight newsletter covers one energy topic – like geothermal energy or decarbonizing your life – and provides you with the most important things you need to know: what it is and how it works, why it matters, environmental impacts, future trends, and more.
Integrative Design for Energy Efficiency Learning Hub
Our Integrative Design for Radical Energy Efficiency Learning Hub explores how optimizing systems for multiple benefits can save massive amounts of energy in buildings, industry, and transportation. Based on the work of Amory Lovins, the hub includes full-length lectures, a written guide to integrative design with examples, curated readings, and additional resources.
Building Decarbonization Learning Accelerator
Buildings account for almost 40% of global GHG emissions. Our Building Decarbonization Learning Accelerator (BDLA) website provides free materials specifically curated to help college faculty and students teach and learn about building decarbonization from a technical and societal perspective. BDLA also offers free seminars and workshops for professors and other professionals interested in building decarbonization.
Executive education
Net-Zero Energy Executive Education
The Net-Zero Energy Executive Education programs are designed to empower leaders with the essential knowledge, skills, and tools to tackle the challenge of steering their organization toward a net zero operation.
Energy certificate
The Energy Innovation and Emerging Technologies certificate program gives you a foundational understanding of the technologies that are transforming how we obtain, distribute, store, and use energy.